Yesterday, I set a reservation for this morning's "Archers" on Radio 4FM at 1000 - 1115. I had previously set a reservation for all episodes of "Wycliffe" on ITV3+1 at 1100 - 1200 on Sunday mornings. Both failed to record.

I switched on at 1130 and found that neither the Archers nor Wycliffe were in the schedule, but Wycliffe is correctly reserved for next Sunday. (At 1130, I wouldn't expect to see the Archers still there, but I would expect to see Wycliffe.)

For info, I have the box set to record 2 mins early, and 5 mins late (I don't trust the "auto" setting, cos I've missed a few starts and ends)

I did a little exploring, by going into the schedule, and the FIND option. I searched for Wycliffe, and todays 1100 edition was there, with a green blob beside it, presumably to indicate that the programe had already started ???

Any ideas, please ? This is the first unexplained issue that I've had with my hdr since I got it over two months ago, so my confidence in it has taken it's first knock !

No answer for you sorry, just more questions. I have found some series linked programs fail, Krypton factor being one example. When I look in schedule I find the listing is still there but the date has passed, there is no indication why the recording failed

Suspect this may be due to ITV not sending out the correct signal at the start of the program.
You may have more luck if you set your box to record (say) 2 mins before the start and 5 mins after. I think this avoids using the start/stop broadcast signals (which can be unreliable), and instead uses the times published in the EPG. Can anyone confirm ?

I've just had a failed recording though not series linked but a repeat record, setup manually. Earlier today I responded to a post on this forum about removing channles in non-freesat mode and for the proposes of accuracey I performed the task on one channel. I made a note of my schedule and re-entered the data after. When my recording was due to start I noted that it hadn't began so switched on the Stb and was greeted with the prompt saying that there were new channels to be added to the freesat line-up. Accepting the retune it reported back that there were no changes. Upon checking the schedule the programme due to start was relegated to the bottom of the list with next weeks date. I have noticed before when retuning, moving and deleting the non-freesat line-up that this often causes the box to suggest that there are changes to the freesat line-up but not thought much of it until now.

So it appears to me that editing the channels in non-freesat mode invokes the box to think freesat mode needs updating and if you turn off the box the next time it is due to boot-up and a recording is scheduled it won't.

I may if I find time to try and repeat this and if anyone else with not many schedules would like to test this be my guest